[plug] iBook question

[Chris Caston]

On Tue, 2004-05-04 at 21:51, Matthew Prouse wrote:
> I just found a toilet seat :) I mean an Apple iBook whilst cleaning out a 
> cupboard at work. I blew the dust off it and turned it on: it works... Boss 
> gave it to me.... happy birthday!
> 
> It is an Apple G3 iBook, 366Mhz with 192MB of RAM. It's running OS 9.1 - 
> although I found a copy of OS X 10.2 OEM in the same cupboard (we once had 
> Mac laptops for graphics/media work). It claims it will install on this 
> machine - and I will probably give it a try.
> 
> Are there any bad apples here? Did I just get handed a lemon or a toilet seat? 
> At first glance its perfect for my other life as an economics student at 
> Murdoch. My question is: does anyone who has, or did have, one run Linux on 
> them at all?
> 
> I asked at Linuxcult and they said Yellowdog. I asked at MandrakeUsers and 
> MandrakeClub and they've suggested Gentoo and not Mandrake 9.1 PPC.
> 
> Does anyone have any advice or experience with these machines? They look real 
> spiffy btw :-)
> 
> mousematt


Two words:

PPC Debian

Gentoo runs well but you gotta like compiling stuff.


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